SUNDAY 22 APRIL 2018 RNCM WIND, BRASS & PERCUSSION FESTIVAL A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL

WELCOME The RNCM School of Wind, Brass and Percussion presents a festival that explores the theatricality of music, musical gesture and the role of the virtuoso within the ensemble. There’ll be fascinating stuff going on throughout the building - both in our venues and via ‘pop-up’ performances in public spaces when you least expect them...

Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale forms the centrepiece of a day examining the drama of music, featuring RNCM ensembles alongside special guests Boston Brass. Expect performances of brilliance, artistry and imagination. And be prepared to dance with the Devil as we take a trip through music and the macabre...

Nick Thompson artistic director 10.30am - 11.15am 12.15pm – 1.15pm RNCM Café RNCM Theatre FESTIVAL PRELUDE: MYSTERIES OF POP-UP PERFORMANCES THE MACABRE There’s a nod to two rock’n’roll Free admission, no ticket required legends in this lunchtime session. David Lang’s Are You Experienced? starts off almost as a joke, evoking 11.30am – 12pm Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelically fluid RNCM Concert Hall electric guitar with its absurd 'replacement', the electric . RNCM SYMPHONIC Lang’s dramatic score for narrator, WIND ENSEMBLE solo tuba and ensemble - which John Mackey Concerto for Soprano is a reaction to, rather than an Saxophone appropriation of, the original song - explores the darker antithesis to RNCM Wind Ensemble Hendrix’s hedonistic ‘experience’ Mark Heron conductor with sex and drugs. Emma McPhilemy soprano saxophone Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis is Free admission, no ticket required scored for the same instrumentation as Stravinsky's The Soldier’s Tale (which will be performed later today). In Dead Elvis, the is Elvis... or perhaps an Elvis impersonator? Does this rock star sell out his Southern folk authenticity in order to attain great wealth and fame? Dead Elvis goes far beyond this romantic Fa u s t i a n s c e n a r i o...

György Ligeti (arr Howarth) Mysteries of the Macabre* David Lang Are You Experienced?ˆ RNCM Student New work for tuba and electronics Michael Daugherty Dead Elvis˚

Jasper de Waal, Nick Thompsonˆ conductors Dominic Longhurst * James Gourlay tubaˆ Edoardo Casali bassoon˚ Free admission, no ticket required 1.30pm – 2pm 3.15pm – 3.45pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall JUNIOR RNCM BOSTON BRASS Join us for a programme of wind FAMILY CONCERT music performed by students from Join our special guests Boston Junior RNCM. Brass as they perform a selection Free admission, no ticket required of well-known classical and jazz standards for the brass quintet. Their programme will 2pm - 3pm include Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Forman Lecture Theatre Fire Dance, alongside music from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. PRESENTATION: THE YEAR OF THE BASSOON Tickets: Adults £5 / Under 16s Free, by ticket only Laurence Perkins talks about his year-long project to inspire and This event is suitable for children encourage young musicians to take aged 10 and above. Please note that this concert features some music which will up the bassoon. be repeated in the first half of the Free admission, no ticket required 7.30pm concert.

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2.15pm – 2.35pm RNCM Concert Hall MASSED BAND 4.15pm – 5pm PERFORMANCE Carole Nash Recital Room Visiting members of local youth RNCM BASSOON ENSEMBLE bands bring to life Stephen McNeff’s Edvard Grieg Holberg Suite Ghosts. Seven celebrated spectres Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina Duo are strikingly evoked to thrill Sonata for two and chill you in Stephen’s blood- curdlingly entertaining theme and Andres Yauri, Stefano Canuti variations. This performance is not bassoon f o r t h e s q u e a m i s h... Free admission, no ticket required Stephen McNeff Ghosts Mark Heron conductor With players from: Derbyshire City and County Youth Wind Band Bolton School Senior Concert Band Oldham Council Music Service Youth Wind Band

Free admission, no ticket required 4.30pm – 5.15pm 6pm – 6.50pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre RNCM BRASS BAND THE SOLDIER’S TALE Monsters abound in this performance FILM WITH LIVE by our very own Brass Band (with ACCOMPANIMENT a special appearance by Boston We’re delighted to present Brass for the final piece, a Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale composition made famous by Mnozil (L’Histoire du soldat) performed Brass.) Silvestre Revueltas’ alongside R O Blechman’s beautifully Sensemayá is a story about the stylish, Emmy Award-winning slaying of a mythical giant snake animated film. Based on Russian within an Afro-Caribbean cult. folklore, this morality tale tells Meanwhile, Judith Bingham’s Prague the story of a soldier who makes a is influenced by the legend of pact with the Devil, handing over the (a monster created by a his beloved violin in exchange for Rabbi), and a video the composer wealth, success, and knowledge of saw about Reinhard Heydrich, the future. But at what cost? the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia. Jasper de Waal conductor It is meant to be a piece about disruption and displacement, but Tickets £10 Bingham deliberately gave it a very This film is suitable for all ages. classical form. However, the chaos and devilment seem to be trying to break out of it at times.

John Ireland Comedy Overture 7.30pm – 9pm Silvestre Revueltas (arr Gourlay) RNCM Concert Hall Sensemayá BOSTON BRASS Judith Bingham Prague WITH RNCM BRASS ENSEMBLE Rubén Fuentes La Bikina (featuring Joaquín Turina Danza Fantastica Boston Brass) Manuel de Falla Ritual Fire Dance J S Bach Wachet Auf; Little Fugue David Thornton, James Gourlay Arthur Pryor Blue Bells of Scotland conductors Astor Piazzolla Milonga Billy May Green Hornet Free admission, no ticket required Pablo Beltrán Ruiz Sway Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol Caravan

Boston Brass: Jeff Conner, Jose Sibaja trumpet Chris Castellanos horn Domingo Pagliuca Sam Pilafian tuba TICKET OFFER A joint ticket priced Modest Mussorgsky (arr Howarth) at £18 is available Pictures at an Exhibition for the 6pm and 7.30pm performances. Please James Gourlay conductor call the Box Office RNCM Brass Ensemble to book. Boston Brass Tickets £12

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